What I'm saying is that there's something healthy about unalienated labor. Surely this is not news. There is also something healthy about people having basic skills. There is no idiocy greater than urban idiocy.
There's a political reason for the growth of agribusiness after WWII, and it has to do with making it less and less possible for people to survive without being wholly woven into the capitalist mode of production.
Joanna
----- Original Message ----- From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2011 3:45:20 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Politics of DIY
I should have stuck to my first response -- skip DIY posts.
The more I read, even of the sensible posters, the more DIY as politics seems to me a potential seedbed of something very like fascism. They are insisting that one way of life is superior to another way of life. Even when they lean backwards not to do this the implication is there. There is something healthy about making something yourself. If that is (I think it bullshit, but if), then buying it at Walmart is unhealthy-- and we are not far from Pound's,
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The whole subject seems creepy to me.
Carrol
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